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My parents' PC did that. But the DLL file wasn't missing, it was a corrupted support file that's custom-generated for the PC configuration. |
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The database is baked. At Microsoft's site, type your error, print the resulting pages, then contact the Geek Exchange to fix it for you. |
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Win XP pops up links for certain program errors, but not specifically for DLLs. |
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You're having this trouble with XP? |
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// The database is baked. //
I'm suggesting more of a hidden database accesible by Windows itself and automatically retrive the missing .lib or .dll files rather than the knowlage base at Microsofts site. |
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// Win XP pops up links for certain program errors. //
This just acesses articles on the aforementioned KB to help prevent problems. Theese popups only appear when you terminate a process or aplication, not when there is a missing file preventing an ap from running. |
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// bristolz //
I have had very little trouble with this on WinXP but on my previous Win95 system. Win98 laptop and college Win2000 computers I get a lot of theese popups. I am thinking more of an integration of this system into future versions of Windows. |
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Yeah. XP has a mechanism that prevents 3rd party installers from replacing important libraries which is where 99% of those problems have come from. (Actually, XP doesn't outright "prevent" DLL tampering, rather it uses a recovery cache and immediately fixes itself if a critical DLL is tampered with during a application installation.) It's not infallible, and can be circumvented by explicitly altering the recovery cache, but I haven't seen the dread problem since I installed XP. Earlier versions of Windows was a DLL free-for-all. |
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An infuriating memory is that it was usually the cheap kids game installers that caused the most havoc. Kind of like having a 59¢ goldfish eat your $300 tropical fish. |
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